Four-Program Series Slated Concert Tickets On Sale
The Junior Service League Concert Series announces four performances for 1976 77 at the Port Lavaca high school auditorium. Season tickets at 10 7 50 and 5 will be sold with no single tickets this year. First show Jim Cullum's Happy Jazz Band on Oct 11 followed by Jim Ed Brown on Nov 9 with the Fairchild sisters, then Shigemi Matsumoto on Feb 26 and Jose Marina Bailes Espanoles on March 10. Mrs Clifton Gruetzmacher chairs the series.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommye Johnson
Wave
Junior Service League
P.O. Box
Port Lavaca
Texas
Attention Concert Series
Jim Cullum
America
Louis Armstrong
Jelly Roll Morton
Bix Beiderbeck
Jim Ed Brown
Jose Marina Bailes
Happy Jazz Band
COG Drops Point From Crime Fight Participation
The Golden Crescent Council of Governments agrees to keep Port Lavaca Police and Calhoun Sheriff's Department in the crime prevention program while dropping Point Comfort, seeks a three year extension beyond 1977, with $100,000 state funding shared among seven counties and Victoria area agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golden Crescent Council of Governments
Calhoun County
Victoria
COG
James Baylor
Port Lavaca
Calhoun Sheriff's Department
Point Comfort
Baylor
Victoria Police Department
Public Protection Committee
Calhoun County Criminal Dist
Atty William Day
Yorktown
Guy Nobles
Darrell Cooper
Cuero Cog
Port Lavaca student bound for Venezuela on exchange
Jill Griffin a Port Lavaca Calhoun High graduate departs for a seven month foreign exchange assignment in Merida Venezuela. She will attend a Spanish speaking high school in the Andes and live with foster parents Jose and Carmen Munoz. Griffin plans to learn Spanish with help from an English speaking sister and joins other AFS students in New York for orientation before leaving for her post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jill Griffin
Foreign Exchange
John Griffin
Port Lavaca
Calhoun High School
Miss Griffin
Merida
Jose Munoz
Momoz
England
Olga
Ligia
Ana
Shili
Carmen
Fifina
Nancy
New York
National
AFS
Phone Rate Bid Delayed At Comfort
General Telephone Co request for a 16.8 percent rate increase was tabled by the Point Comfort Board of Aldermen after a Citizens Advisory Committee recommendation. The advisory panel had previously shifted the request from 60.2 to 16.8 percent and suggested similar increases for all lines. A public work session was set for August 9 to discuss the proposal. The meeting included remarks by Ron Beck of General Telephone and a trial plan for Bank of Commerce billing. The council also moved to table the increase and addressed city maintenance and animal control issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Ann Jungman
General Telephone Co
Point Comfort Board of Aldermen
Citizens Advisory Committee
W. L. Schmidt
Schmidt
Board of Aldermen
Ron Beck
Port Lavaca
General Telephone
Steelman Visits Seadrift Plant On Thursday Morning
U S Rep Alan Steelman of Dallas plans a September visit to the Union Carbide plant in Seadrift. He arrives at 9 a.m. and meets staff until 9 30, then joins employees at the morning coffee break before returning to Victoria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Alan Steelman
Dallas
Union Carbide
Seadrift
Steelman
Victoria
Port Radio Station KGUL License Assigned to Andrus
The FCC in Washington authorized the KGUL license transfer to Daniel L. Andrus for 100000 dollars. Andrus, of Ville Platte Louisiana, as KVPI FM AM general manager, says the transfer takes effect August 1 and he will meet the current owner in Port Lavaca to finalize. He plans FM installation in Port Lavaca and expects his family to move there within two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Communication Commission
Washington
KGUL
Daniel L. Andrus
Andrus
Villeplatte
KVPI
Louis Seibert
San Angelo
Port Lavaca
Radio
Texans View Ford Connally Ticket Hopefuls Split on Timing
The Associated Press reports Texans differ on Gov. John Connally's endorsement of President Ford for the Republican nomination. Dallas County GOP leader William McKenzie predicts Connally Ford as a ticket appealing to independents and Democrats, while Reagan backer John Leedman says the move is too late to sway Kansas City delegates bound to Reagan for the first two ballots.
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Associated Press
Texas
John Connally
Ford
Connally
Lone Star State
Ronald Reagan
Kansas City
Dallas County
William McKenzie
John Leedman
Dallas
Reagan
Gov. Connally
Leedman
Swine Flu Shot Publicity Head Appointed in Calhoun County
W L Schmidt of Point Comfort was named chairman of the Speakers Bureau and Publicity Committee for the swine flu vaccination drive in Calhoun County. Mrs. Clifton Gruetzmacher announced the appointment and the program aims to schedule outreach for September with slide film presentations and Q A sessions at churches and civic groups. Contact Schmidt at Box 488 Point Comfort or 987 2782 for dates. The First Lady's Volunteer Program coordinates with the County Health Department under Clayton Toulson and Mrs. Jack Lawrence to staff vaccine clinics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.L. Schmidt
Point Comfort
Speakers Bureau
Clifton Gruetzmacher
Calhoun County
Schmidt
County Health Department
Clayton Toulson
Jack Lawrence
Two Hurt in Early Morning Crash Near Port Lavaca
An early morning crash seven miles north of Port Lavaca on Highway 87 left two Victoria men dead and two others in fair condition at Champ Traylor Memorial Hospital. Debie Carter 19 of Port Lavaca Ramiro Licerio 24 of Victoria and Don O Reyes 22 of Bloomington were reported in fair condition while Richard Olguin 21 of Victoria was treated and released. Fatally injured were Paul Vasquez 25 and Santiago Lamas 22 both of Victoria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Champ Traylor
Santiago Lamas
Weather outlook with heat and sailing winds
Partly cloudy and hot through Thursday with south winds 6 to 14 mph. High today near the 90s and a low around the 70s. Boating winds from south to southeast 5 to 15 knots, seas 2 to 3 feet, tides high today at 5 08 p.m. and 7 19 a.m. Thursday, low at 12 08 a.m. and 7 11 p.m. Thursday. Sunset today 8 22 p.m. and sunrise Thursday 6 48 a.m. Barometric pressure 30 00.
Calhoun 4-Her Wins District Contest Advances to State
Kenneth Zbikowski of Lakeside 4-H won first in the recreation division at District 14 judging in Rockport and will advance to the state 4-H competition. Senior division winners included Mary Ann Knobles as first alternate in poultry records and Patti Maguire in home environment. Red ribbon winners were Diane Knobles poultry Bobby Meeks swine Laura Lee Crober citizenship Jo Ann Mills foods and nutrition Kim Machacek sheep Marsha Knobles leadership James Zbikowski electric Roxanne Sikes clothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Zbikowski
Lakeside
Rockport
Mary Ann Knobles
Patti Maguire
Diane Knobles
Bobby Meeks
Laura Lee Crober
Jo Ann Mills
Kim Mach
Aluminum Smelter Opens in Anderson County Texas
Aluminum Company of America will open its Anderson County Works near Palestine Texas with Gov Dolph Briscoe and ALCOA chair W H Krome George attending. The plant aims to cut electricity use by 30 percent in molten aluminum and starts at 15 000 tons annually with potential to reach 300 000 tons, becoming the nation’s largest Texas has other ALCOA plants at Point Comfort Rockdale and Marshall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palestine, Tex
Ap) Aluminum Company of America
Anderson County
Dolph Briscoe
Alcoa Board
W. H. Krome George
Anderson County Works
Palestine
East Texas
Bergeron
ALCOA
Texas
Point Comfort
Rockdale
Marshall
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Shigemi Matsumoto
Social Advocates For
Victoria College
Venezuela
Field Service Foreign Exchange
Equator
United States
Beck
Bank of Commerce
A. A. Rambikar
Rambikar
David Roberts
City Hall
Port
McKenzie
Ronnie Sikes
Walter Maguire
Gerald Ward
Gilbert Heideman
Fred Bergeron
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